Charles/Florent,

Maybe I should explain what I am trying to do
and show how, so you can comment on whether what I am doing is correct.

I am trying to upload Excel[2000/2003] file, process that info and put
it in database.
One of the very important fields is a Start_Date.
It supposed to be of type "Date" and be in the format mm/dd/yyyy.

If that was not a case (and invalid date format results in making type
non-Date,
that seems to be some Microsoft trick in Excel),
up until recently we were just putting a fake date like 01/01/2000,
but that had negative consequences, so now if the type of Start_Date
is not a Date,
we are supposed to instead insert that row into Error table (without
the Start_Date).

So here is my code:
<xsl:template name='buildStatement'>
	<xsl:param name='row'/>
	<xsl:param name='table'/>
	<xsl:param name='notes'/>

	<sql:execute-query>
		<sql:query>
			<xsl:text>insert into </xsl:text>
			<xsl:value-of select='$table'/>
			<xsl:text> (</xsl:text>
			<xsl:for-each select='$row/sht:Cell'> <!--OK: MBR-233 don't insert
Start_Date if not Date type - PUT condition here too? -->
				<xsl:if test='not(sht:Name[.="Facility_Start_Date"]/@ValueType="DATE")'>
<!--OK: MBR-233  -->
					<xsl:value-of select='sht:Name'/>
					<xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
				</xsl:if>
			</xsl:for-each>
			<xsl:text>association_id, process_ind, last_update_user_id</xsl:text>
			<!--OK: MBR-233 don't insert Start_Date if not Date type -->
			<xsl:if test='not($row/sht:Cell/sht:Name[.="Facility_Start_Date"])'>
				<xsl:text>, facility_start_date</xsl:text>
			</xsl:if>
			<xsl:if test='$notes'>
				<xsl:text>, notes</xsl:text>
			</xsl:if>
			<xsl:text>) values (</xsl:text>
			<xsl:variable name='theRow' select='.'/>
			<xsl:for-each select='$row/sht:Cell'>
				<xsl:choose>
					<xsl:when test='@ValueType="DATE"'>
						<xsl:choose>
							<xsl:when test='contains(sht:Content, "9999") and
contains(sht:Name, "Facility_End_Date")'>
								<xsl:text>null, </xsl:text>
							</xsl:when>
							<xsl:otherwise>
								<xsl:text>to_date(&apos;</xsl:text>
								<xsl:value-of select='sht:Content'/>
								<xsl:text>&apos;, &apos;mm/dd/YYYY&apos;), </xsl:text><!--Mon
dd, YYYY-->
							</xsl:otherwise>
						</xsl:choose>
					</xsl:when>
<!--xsl:when test='contains(sht:Name, "Start_Date")'--> <!--OK:
MBR-233 Never insert 1/1/2000 or any fake date !
-->															<!--xsl:text>'1-jan-2000', </xsl:text-->
					<!--/xsl:when-->





On 3/6/06, Florent Georges <darkman_spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> cknell@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > since every other node in the expression appears to be
> > in a namespace (i.e., sht:), how is that the @ValueType
> > isn't also in this namespace (e.g., sht:ValueType)?
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>   It's a common practice to not qualify attributes, letting them in the
> null namespace.  Think about your favorite XML languages.
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>   Regards,
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> --drkm
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